Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-02-12
HOUSE.
CHARLESTON. W. va,


THURSDAY, February 10, 1887.
The House was opened with prayer by
Rev. Mr.. BoggS, of the NJ. +. church
South.
Mr.. Chew, from the Committee on Tax
| alton and Finance, reported back the fol-
lowing in reply to Mr.. Lucas resolution
that the committee he instructed to aScer-
tam whether any additional tax was neces-
sary for school purposes:
Upon q careful examination your COM
mittee finds that thirty-nine counties in
this State, with the present levy of ten
cents OH one hundred dollars, average five
months of school in each year: that fifteen
counties with the present levy average
| three and One-third months; and that the
average throughout the whole number of
| counties of this State is four and three
fourth months. Also that in the said
tirteen counties the average county levy for
| free school purposes was fOrty-twO and
| four-tifth cents for the year 1885; and for
1887 was thirty-tive and 0ue-teurth cents
on the hundred dOlla $, also that the levy
in the thirty nine counties for the year
1885 averaged twenty-nine cents and tor
1896 t~hirty-One and twO-thirds cents.
Your committee also beg leave TO report
that with Il county levy of fifty cents on
the one hundred dollars, four months
| school can be maintained in all the COun-
| ties of this State except four, i'll which
| latter COMMITTEES the fraction less than four
months would be very small. Your COM
mittcc also reports that the amount appOr-
| toned TO the free schools in 1856 was
I Sl6i:52I. SO, and in lSS6 was 1867, 72l.96,
and the Auditor estimated the amount for
ISL to be $352, OOO. Your committee fur
| Their report that an increase of five cents on
the hundred dollars Would have
no material effect on the
length OF the school term in the said fifteen
counties. In view OF the large increase III
the amount appOrtiOned to the school fund
in lSSB and the probable maintenance or
even increase of this amount in future
wears, we, your committee unanimously
agree in reporting that the proposed in
! crease of five cents on the one hundred
dollars would be unnecessary and impoll-
tic. X. u. CHEW, Chairman.
Mr.. Harding, from the Committee on
Military Affairs, reported hack H.. T.. 3l3,
providing for the restoration of the gold
plated eagle which was lost from the
Twelfth Regiment of West Virginia ln-
fantry in removal from Charleston to
Wheeling in the year 1873, with the rec
ommendation that it pass.
Mr.. Crockett, from, the Committee on
Humane Institutions and public buildings,
reported back III. Il. 136, ''ro establish IN
asylum for the insane and appropriating
| g.DA nln g. al .ra.Iinp Of tho snnlR with
the recommendation that it pass. The
bill was then taken up Out Of its order aud
read a first time. On motion ofMr. David
son II. b. 153, ''apprOpriating $780, 600 toi
+ the erection of a brick building on the
grounds of the Hospital for the Insane al
Weston. W. Va" was also taken up and
read 4 first time.
Mr.. Reynolds introduced II. b. liz,
Concerning the schOOl-boOks - he usef
in the public schools of the State.
II. Is. -, Fixing the salaries of clerk
of county courts in certain cases, wa
passed DIV a vOte of49 TO none.
Several bills of minor importance wer,
read a second time and passed toa thlrC
reading,
At the conclusion of the Joint Assembly
the HOnSe took a recess until } p. m.
In the afternoon session the bill refer
ring to exemptions from taxation was reaf
a third time and passed.
After the reading and amendment o
several bills on a second reading a resolu
ton was adopted providing that no persoI
shall be allowed to speak more than twic'
nor longer than five minutes on any on
+ subject during the remainder of the ses
I sion.
J Mr.. Taylor introduced H. B. S15, IT
. make ArnOld's creek, from the b. G.
, X. near Central Station to c. ]. Stewart
farm, on the right hand fork, and t
: J Franklin Maxwell's farm on the left han,